Unemployment Rates Continue to Rise is Starke, Pulaski Counties

Unemployment rates continue to rise in
Starke and Pulaski counties. Starke County saw an unemployment rate
of 5.5 percent in January, according to the latest
report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
That’s an increase of a full percentage point from the month before
and three-tenths of a percent from January of 2018.

Pulaski County saw a similar increase.
Its January unemployment rate was 3.8 percent, compared to three
percent the month before and 3.7 percent in January of last year.

Both counties had more people in their
labor force compared to January of 2018, and the number of people
working actually increased over that same time frame. The state as a
whole saw a non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 4.1 percent
last month, while the national rate was 4.4 percent.